Re: pkg/44048

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44048; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/44048
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:50:37 +0000

 On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:00:14PM +0000, Filip Hajny wrote:
  > The following reply was made to PR pkg/44048; it has been noted by GNATS.
  > 
  > The essence on the part of Mailman is that Mailman's configure *does* check=
  >  that the user picked truly exists. If either doesn't exist for real, it wi=
  > ll still go on and install itself, but with the user/group bits blank in it=
  > s core config files, which makes the package fail when installed. I run a m=
  > odified mail/mailman package on my system which patches away the user/group=
  >  existence part in configure, which makes this entire problem go away (i.e.=
  >  the pkgsrc package can be switched back to the normal at-install-time user=
  > /group handling). And the check_perms invocation in INSTALL takes care of a=
  > ny file ownership/permission issues at package install time, anyway.
  >  
  > Isn't that a better way to deal with this problem? I can patch the package =
  > to work like this.
 
 Yes, that seems like a much better approach.
 
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 David A. Holland
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